Title

Effect of titanium versus conventional mini-plate for mandibular angle fractures treatment

Authors

Kuldeep Pal^1,*, Swati Tiwari², Sumit Patidar³, Rashmi Rai⁴ & Anurag Tripathi⁵

Affiliation

¹Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Consultant Surgeon, Pal Hospital, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Consultants, Dr. Mudgal's Sparsh Hospital and Research, Centre, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Head & Neck Cancer, Reconstructive and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeon, Consultant at OraMax Clinic, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, Consultant Surgical Oncology, Balco Medical Centre, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India; ⁵Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Consultant Surgeon, Clinic Oramax Dant Chikitsalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Kuldeep Pal - E - mail: kulpals@gmail.com
Swati Tiwari - E - mail: drswatitiwari@hotmail.com
Sumit Patidar - E - mail: dr.sumitpatidar00@gmail.com
Rashmi Rai - E - mail: drrashmi29@gmail.com
Anurag Tripathi - E - mail: dr.anuragtripathi2008@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 1, 2025; Revised April 30, 2025; Accepted April 30, 2025, Published April 30, 2025

Abstract

Both titanium and stainless-steel mini plates were compared for their impact on clinical results after treating 30 patients with fractures at the mandibular angle. People in Group A (with titanium) experienced less pain (VAS), recovered faster from swelling and had a regained higher bite force (320 N) in 3 months compared to Group B (patients in Z-shaped bony plates). Only one case of infection and hardware loosening developed in Group B. Furthermore, bone healing was faster in Group A (in 6.2 weeks) than in Group B (in 7.1 weeks). Thus, titanium mini plates showed the best results.

Keywords

Mandibular angle fracture, titanium miniplate, stainless-steel miniplate, internal fixation, fracture healing, maxillofacial trauma

Citation

Pal et al. Bioinformation 21(4): 888-891 (2025)

Edited by

Vini Mehta

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.